Corner flush-bolt



(No Model.)

P. PORG.

GORNER FLUSH BOLT.

N0.v 451,474. Patented May 5,1891.

- a closet or otherdoor to be fastened.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER FORG, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORNER FLUSH-BOLT.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 451,474, dated .May 5, 1891.

Application filed October 9, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER FORG, of Somerville, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in CornerFlush-Boltspf which thefollowingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a simple-and efiicient flush-bolt adapted to be applied to the corner or edge of Myra-proved bolt consists of a shell having substantially right-angled lips or flanges, a substantially circular portion, and a longitudinally-movable bar therein.

My improved bolt is slitted at its circular portion to form a spring to hold the barin the position in which it may be left in the shell.

Figure 1 represents two closet-doors, one of which has one of my bolts attached to it; Fig. 2, a cross-section in the line 00, and Fig. '3 a vertical section in the line 00'.

The case or shell of the bolt, composed of sheet metal, iron, or brass, is bent to leave a nearly circular central part a, with fla'nges a a substantially at right angles, so as to em- Serial No. 367,492. (No model.)

brace the corner of the door (2, to which it is applied by screws 2 This case or shell is slotted at 4 for the passage through it of the usual finger-piece 5, which enters the boltbar 0.

To keep the bar in the position in which it is left by the finger-piece, I have slitted the shell to leave a spring-tongue S, which is turned in against the bar.

I claim 1. The hereindescribed corner-bolt, consisting of a bar and a case or shell bent to 

